Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction

Name: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780241988824

by Unknown Author

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138 pages2019Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780241988824

Young Adult Science

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The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about "one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction" (New York Times). These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass--the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family--as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy. "He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet..."

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2019
Pages: 138
ISBN: 9780241988824

About Unknown Author

Jerome David Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel *The Catcher in the Rye.* Salinger published several short stories in *Story* magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story *A Perfect Day for Bananafish* appeared in *The New Yorker,* which published much of his later work. *The Catcher in the Rye* was an immediate popular success; Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel was widely read and controversial, and its success led to public attention and scrutiny. Salinger became reclusive, publishing less frequently. He followed *Catcher* with a short story collection, *Nine Stories* (1953); *Franny and Zooey* (1961), a volume containing a novella and a short story; and a volume containing two novellas, *Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters* and *Seymour: An Introduction* (1963). Salinger's last published work, the novella *Hapworth 16, 1924,* appeared in *The New Yorker* on June 19, 1965. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger)